page_title: Nicolò Tron (diplomat)
section_title: Return to homeland
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolò Tron (diplomat) / Life / Return to homeland
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Schio, particolare della facciata del Teatro Jacquard This is a photo of a monument which is part of cultural heritage of Italy. This monument participates in the contest Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2012. See authorisations. (wiki-ID: 024100169)
context_page_description: Nicolò Tron was an Italian politician, businessman and agronomist, citizen of the Republic of Venice.
  A Venetian noble, Tron was a young ambassador of the Republic of Venice at the English court; back in Italy, he tried to import the technological and organizational innovations seen abroad, founding the Schio woolen mill, organizing his agricultural estates with modern criteria and activating himself in using his political influence to favor and encourage his own Venetian businesses.
context_section_description: Once returned in Venice during the summer of 1717, Nicolò Tron brought with him technicians and machines to spread the technical and scientific that he had seen in England. The activity that involve him the most was the creation of woolen mill in Schio, but he was active also in the reorganization of him land holdings in Anguillara e other.
  In England had had way to see the first hydraulic steam pumps achieved by Thomas Savery since 1698 and perfected by Thomas Newcomen and Denis Papin, machines for sale since 1712. The technology was still rudimentary and few efficient, but Tron understood their importance and he had made English technicians come in Italy to recreate that machine in his rural hold in Anguillara Veneta, in order to reclaim marshy areas. The company didn't have the hoped success, also for the death of an Englishman and the defection of another one. But this didn't prevent to Tron to create identical machines in the hills around Schio, in areas call Tretto, to use them on the drainage of water in the mines of kaolin and carbon.
  This technology probably was too much immature to show economically valid results, so it remained an experiment without sequel confined in the two cited locations. However, it was the first time that these machines were processed outside of English borders.
  Around these mines, and probably around steam machines installed, worked also James Stirling, called "the Venetian", a Scottish mathematician well known in England, escaped from England because of jacobite persecutions. He found shelter in Italy thanks to Tron. Stirling dedicated to Tron his treaty Lineae tertii ordinis Newtonianæ. Stirling, like Tron, hoped to have the Mathematics chair at the University of Padua. This didn't happen, probably because people that followed Leibniz's theory were considered better than Newton's one. We only know that Stirling visited the university once on 25 March 1721.
caption: Medallion of Nicolò Tron, detail of the facade of Jacquard theater in Schio
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